{rickwells.us} ~ In a Sunday interview on Meet the Press, Dianne Feinstein spoke on the massacre in Las Vegas and related gun-grabbing issues... She’s pitching her own piece of legislation which has 38 Democrat co-sponsors, no Republicans, that would ban bump stocks. Feinstein says that regulations alone aren’t enough for her as they can be changed from one administration to the next. She wants a law. Asked to explain the increased sales of bump stocks following the Las Vegas shooting, Feinstein says she doesn’t know what to make of it. Clearly those who want one sense that a ban is likely, it’s tough for Feinstein to figure out probably in large part because she’s a Democrat and she doesn’t want to...https://rickwells.us/feinstein-dem-gun-talking-points/

{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ The day after California Governor Jerry Brown signs a bill that prevents local police notifying ICE of illegal alien arrests ICE notifies California... their new law forces workplace raids as enforcement actions: SB54 will negatively impact ICE operations in California by nearly eliminating all cooperation and communication with our law enforcement partners in the state, voiding the delegated authority that the Orange County Sheriff’s Office has under the 287g program, and prohibiting local law enforcement from contracting with the federal government to house detainees. ICE will have no choice but to conduct at-large arrests in local neighborhoods and at worksites, which will inevitably result in additional collateral arrests, instead of focusing on arrests at jails and prisons where transfers are safer for ICE officers and the community. ICE will also likely have to detain individuals arrested in California in detention facilities outside of the state, far from any family they may have in California...https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/10/08/ice-responds-to-cal...

{wnd.com} ~ In one of the fieriest speeches directed at Israel by Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, he called for the ethnic cleansing of all Jews in Israel... the destruction of the Jewish state and told Israelis to begin a “count down to death.” The speech echoed recent rhetoric recently by the Iranian regime and its military officials, who said Tel Aviv would be “destroyed” if Israel made “a mistake,” and that Israel would not survive for more than 25 years. “Israel should remain silent and count down the days to its death, because any minor mistake would lead to its demise as fast as lightning,” said Iranian army commander Maj.-Gen. Abdolrahim Mousavi...http://www.wnd.com/2017/10/count-down-days-to-death-in-israel/

{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Reporters continue scratching their heads about what President Trump meant when he spoke of the "calm before the storm" Thursday as he was hosting a dinner for military commanders and their spouses... It seems clear to me that he was sending a powerful message to North Korea and Iran: change your behavior now, or prepare to face new but unspecified painful consequences. North Korea and Iran are taking the measure of President Trump to see how far they can push him and how much they can get away with. The North Koreans continue testing nuclear weapons and long-range missiles and threaten to launch a nuclear attack on America and our allies that could kills millions. Iran is likely engaging in activities that could contribute to the design and development of its own nuclear explosive device...https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11129/trump-message-north-korea-...

I confess I’d never given Puerto Rico much thought. I knew the place was a territory, but I never really knew why. I mean, if we didn’t mean to grant the island statehood -- and why would we? -- why didn’t we let it become its own nation?

There have been those who sought just that for decades. I recall from my childhood that a bunch of Puerto Rican nationalists took pot shots at the White House while Harry and Bess Truman were in residence. Now I can understand we wouldn’t want to be seen caving in to the demands of terrorists, but that was about 70 years ago. It’s long past time that we stopped worrying about a place that, as a result of always electing Democrats, is sinking in a sea of red ink.

I mean, if we never intended to adopt it, why did we want to be its foster parent?

I understand it would be unseemly to cut the place loose this soon after it’s suffered through two major hurricanes. On the other hand, when I heard that the mayor of San Juan, a typical left-wing dingbat named Carmen Yulin Cruz, claimed that Donald Trump was inflicting genocide on Puerto Rico, I felt my gorge rising.

For one thing, Trump has sent a rescue force numbering over 10,000, and we have seen the food and water pile up on the docks because along with taking out the electricity, hurricanes named Jose and Maria washed out most of the roads to the interior. It hasn’t helped that Puerto Rican truck drivers apparently haven’t stepped up to help transport the necessities.

For another thing, if Mayor Cruz weren’t a typical liberal, ever ready to hurl rocks at Republicans while displaying her own breathtaking ignorance, she would know that, like Vizzini in “The Princess Bride,” who kept tossing around the word “inconceivable,” until Indigo Montoya finally had to point out that the word didn’t mean what Vizzini apparently thought it did, she was misusing “genocide.”

Genocide happens to be the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national or racial group. It was what the Turks attempted to do to the Armenians, what Hitler tried to do to the Jews and what Turkey, where bad habits never die, is today trying to do to the Kurds.

I doubt if Mayor Cruz actually believes that Trump is out to kill off all the Puerto Ricans, but like her fellow pinheads on the mainland who have no problem comparing Trump to Hitler and Stalin, when liberals hold forth, the truth inevitably dies from lack of oxygen.

Wouldn’t you think Mayor Cruz would be a lot angrier with God than she is with Trump?

I have a friend who regards Puerto Rico as a hole in the ocean so far as the United States is concerned. I think so, too, but I wouldn’t want word to get around because I’d like to see us auction off the place, describing it as a garden paradise in the brochure, but perhaps admitting it is currently something of a fixer-upper.

● For the life of me, I don’t know why the Republicans have gone out of their way to destroy their credibility with their base. For seven years, they kept begging for the chance to get rid of liar-nObamaCare. Then once they had the chance, they kept tripping over their own feet doing their impression of the Keystone Kops.

Personally, I didn’t care for any of the bills they came up with. But, then, that’s because I don’t think the federal government has any more business meddling with healthcare than with education. But I’m enough of a realist to understand that when it comes to what they regard as entitlements, Americans tend to be very large babies who insist on hanging on to their candy.

Therefore, the best we could expect of the 52 senators is that they would pass something, almost anything, so they could at least say they had repealed the vilest piece of legislation ever saddled on the American electorate.

The worst of the sorry lot was RINO-John McCain who got himself off a sick bed so he could join the Democrats in casting a nay vote. I have never thought much of Sen. RINO-McCain, who regarded himself as a statesman even if nobody else ever did, but that struck me as a particularly low blow, delivered not only to the American voter, but to his GOP colleagues, who will now have a very difficult time being re-elected in 2018.

When I asked myself why RINO-McCain would go to such lengths to sabotage the efforts to repeal liar-nObamaCare, I suddenly remembered that during the primaries, Trump had said he didn’t admire POWs, he admired those who weren’t captured. At the time, I merely regarded it as a stupid, insensitive, remark. I now have reason to suspect that RINO-McCain didn’t forget and certainly never forgave.

● Although we haven’t been hearing much about Robert Mueller’s witch hunt, wouldn’t you think by now that even Chuck clown-Schumer and James Comey would stop promoting the Russian connection?

I’m sure that Putin no longer expects Trump to invite him to the senior prom. Not after bombing Russia-backed Syria; sending additional troops to Afghanistan to fight Russia’s allies, the Taliban; voicing support for NATO; selling missile defense systems to Poland and Romania; and opposing the Russian-blessed nuclear deal with Iran.

The Left used to make fun of Sen. Joe McCarthy because he was always changing the number of Communists he insisted were conniving away at the State Department, but they have no problem fudging numbers when it’s in their own interest. For instance, do you remember when they were first pushing the collusion story that they kept referring to 17 intelligence agencies? Mrs. liar-Clinton, for one, was wont to say: “We have 17 intelligence agencies, civilian and military, who have all concluded that these espionage attacks, these cyberattacks, come from the highest levels of the Kremlin, and they are designed to influence our election.”

At the time, I found myself wondering about all those agencies. Were they including the intelligence-gathering arm of the Cub Scouts?

As it happens, there were only three agencies, the FBI, the CIA and the National Security Agency, and, as we’ve seen over the past several months, all three have become as politicized as the DNC or, if you prefer, the NY Times and CNN.

But because the spies have shown themselves to be actively engaged in undermining this administration, the Democrats don’t have a problem with it. In fact, Chuck clown-Schumer could barely conceal his delight when he said: “Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you. So even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, Trump is really dumb to do this.”

Former George W. Bush speechwriter/Never Trumper David Frum tossed in his own two cents, saying: “CIA message to Trump: you mess with us, get ready for a leakstorm of Biblical proportions.”

There is always the question when security agencies are involved about who is going to watch the watchers. Clearly, at least so long as their illegal activities are directed at Trump, those who have sworn an oath to defend the Constitution, don’t have a problem with standing by, rubbing their hands gleefully and chuckling over their good fortune.

● When President Trump refrained from firing Jeff Sessions for recusing himself, I was relieved. My mistake. So far as I’m aware, the only thing that Sessions has done in eight months is conduct a well-publicized campaign against MS-13, a gang of Salvadoran punks who terrorize their countrymen in the U.S.

I hope the agents of the Justice Department jail, deport or kill, the bunch of them. But in the meantime, I don’t see Sessions doing anything about jailing liar-Hillary Trump or going after the likes of Susan Rice, Samantha Power, Ben Rhodes, Loretta Lynch, Lois Lerner, James Comey, or any of the other skunks who lurked in liar-nObama’s woodpile.

It doesn’t help Sessions’ credibility as America’s Top Lawman that he comes across like a southern spinster lady. It’s hardly the image of a tough crimefighter, but an Attorney General doesn’t have to look or sound tough; he just has to be tough and to believe in his gut that nobody in America is too big to jail.

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ALERT ALERT

Rush Limbaugh Explains How Robert MuellerWill Attempt To Financially Destroy President Trump

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has crossed President Trump’s “red line” after issuing a subpoena for documents related to the Trump Organization’s business dealings with Russia.

New York Times reports:

The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has subpoenaed the Trump Organization to turn over documents, including some related to Russia, according to two people briefed on the matter. The order is the first known time that the special counsel demanded documents directly related to President Trump’s businesses, bringing the investigation closer to the president. […] The Trump Organization has said that it never had real estate holdings in Russia, but witnesses recently interviewed by Mr. Mueller have been asked about a possible real estate deal in Moscow. In 2015, a longtime business associate of Mr. Trump’s emailed Mr. Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen at his Trump Organization account claiming he had ties to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and said that building a Trump Tower in Moscow would help Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign.

Radio host Rush Limbaugh theorized on his program Friday that one of Mueller’s true objectives is to financially destroy President Trump.

Partial transcript via Breitbart News:

And these requests, the subpoena for documents from the Trump Organization, I ask you again, what has that to do with the campaign and with collusion and with the Russians? They’ve already been looking into Trump business in Russia with the Miss, what is it, USA, whatever his pageant is.

Do you all remember during the early days of the campaign there was news that Trump, in a tax return something like 20 years ago, took a $900 million deduction that was granted and survived an audit by the IRS? Now, I forget the details. It had to do with losses that he had incurred in that year in building things. It was around 900 or $920 million deduction. I’ll never forget when it was reported because most people will never come close to ever having that in a lifetime, and to have a guy personally write that much off?

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Anyway, I think Mueller wants that $920 million back. I think Mueller wants to prove that that was a faulty deduction. I think that they want to go back, they want to get Trump’s tax returns because they want to nullify that $900 million deduction, and then they want to collect 20 years of interest and penalties and wipe Trump out.

In the meantime, President Trump’s lawyers are in the process of negotiating with special counsel Robert Mueller to bring the Russia probe to an end, reports Rebecca Ballhaus and Peter Nicholas of the Wall Street Journal.

Mueller’s tentacles continue to reach further and further.

CNN reported that investigators are attempting to determine whether former Blackwater chief Erik Prince misled the House Intelligence Committee about a meeting he had in Seychelles in January of 2017.

Prince is accused of using the meeting as an opportunity to establish a secret back channel with Russia.

Fox News’ Catherine Herridge spoke with one of President Trump’s personal lawyers about the new subpoena request by Special Counsel Mueller.

According to Herridge, Trump’s lawyer was unaware of the subpoena and said it may be a ‘wrap up’ subpoena or ‘clean up’ subpoena which may signal the end of the investigation.